Lavelle, PA

Lavelle is a census-designated place that is located in Butler Township, Schuylkill County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Situated on Pennsylvania Route 901, it was part of the Lavelle-Locustdale CDP for the 2000 census, before the communities were split into the two separate CDPs of Lavelle and Locustdale. Lavelle, an Ashland, Pennsylvania attorney who had been a cavalryman during the American Civil War. The short version is that Lavelle carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Lavelle: its past remains attached to the places people use now. During the late nineteenth century, the community of Lavelle was described by area newspapers as a hamlet. Lavelle, an attorney in the neighboring town of Ashland who achieved local fame as a cavalryman with the Union Army during the American Civil War.